Session Overview

• Providing Critical Care in Rural Zambia: learning to adapt your skills through the journey of a patient with severe acute organophosphate poisoning.
• Organophosphate poisoning: an overview of how to identify and manage this concerningly common presentation.
• A whip through of how we resuscitated and ventilated a patient for 15-days in a low resource, newly formed, Intensive Care Unit in Zambia.
• Thinking outside the box: how we learnt to adapt our skills and utilise our limited resources to optimise our patient’s care.

Intended Learning Outcomes

• To appreciate the concerning and underreported impact of organophosphate poisonings.
• To learn about the presentation and management of a patient with an acute organophosphate poisoning.
• To learn about some challenges of managing a ventilated patient in a low resource setting.
• To understand the importance of performing a dynamic risk assessment in the low resource dynamic environment.
• To increase your understanding of how to adapt your skills when you are in an unfamiliar or resource poor environment.